Why isn't light broken up into various colors when we look at something through a magnifying glass?
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Light does get dispersed in a lens (magnifying glass uses a lens); the phenomenon is known as chromatic aberration. – Yashas Mar 27 '17 at 14:31
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Duplicate? http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/228400/dispersion-of-light-through-a-prism-but-not-through-glass-or-lense – Farcher Mar 27 '17 at 16:31
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Tutorial here https://www.microscopyu.com/tutorials/chromatic and image here Nice image here. http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-chromatic-aberration-illustrated-using-a-magnifying-glass-133821.html – Farcher Mar 27 '17 at 17:09